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Book Review: American Psycho, by Bret Easton Ellis
Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho describes a few years in the life of Patrick Bateman, a successful investor and psychopath. That’s about all there is to it. American Psycho is not so much a story, but a drawn out snapshot of the nightmare world of yuppies in late 80s New York. This setting is as…
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LHC
I love Google’s title image for today: It’s a nice mix of recognizing an extremely important scientific accomplishment with just a pinch of end-of-the-world paranoia. The truth is that the world has about the same chance of ending today as it did yesterday. But I think the dimwitted people protesting the large hadron collider aren’t…
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Fa Fa Fa, FaFaFa Fa Fa
Oh Apple. I love you, but why do you disappoint me so? All I want is a new iPod that holds more than my old iPod and does more cool stuff. The only thing that does that is the new iPod classic, which barely got a mention at today’s Apple event, was actually downgraded from…
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